Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandstand seat at his Inaugural parade." Whether the Iraqis and the Iranians will be that cooperative remains to be seen. Foreign affairs has not been Carter's long suit, and it is possible that the gulf war has come too soon-and its consequences, once the scare passes, might prove too messy-to be of much help to the incumbent...
Procter & Gamble insists that the case against its six-year-old product is far from proved. Says a company medical consultant: "Can you imagine a Government agency passing up the opportunity to scare the hell out of millions of women?" Even so, the Cincinnati-based firm ordered the product off the market, offering refunds to customers. That may not be enough. One TSS victim, Linda Imboden of Redding, Calif., who lost her hair and suffered crippling in her hands and toes, has already filed a $5 million suit against Procter & Gamble, claiming that it knew all along that Rely...
...considered too old to defeat the man who had destroyed the same Joe Frazier who had given Ali two tough battles. Nearing 39, Ali is again marked as a strong underdog to the much younger Holmes, who twice easily defeated Earnie Shavers after Shavers had given Ali a real scare in September...
...will even return to Manila, a city he describes as "worse now than during World War II. There's a bomb scare every ten minutes, and a checkpoint at every bridge." While he says he has "lost his appetite for power," he adds quickly that "I will never turn my back to the call." He is fully aware of the risks he faces. "Marcos can arrest anyone. He even has a device he calls 'preventive arrest.' Now he's paranoid. Frankly, I don't know what he's going...
...self-important people who think they are making a difference, pulling the strings and waging the real war. For all we know, they are. But The Spike fails to prove it. It doesn't sufficiently create that someone-is-watching-you quality, it does not suck you in and scare you; it makes you feel like a captive audience to a spectacle you've seen before. Evil was never so banal